RESOURCES

1. What program should I use?

CLAN program and manual (Windows and Mac, free)

ELAN program and manual (Windows and Mac, free)

Transana program and manual (Windows and Mac, approximately €60)


2. The very basics of transcription with CLAN

Introductory article about using CLAN:
MacWhinney, Brian & Wagner, Johannes (2010). Transcribing, searching and data sharing: The CLAN softwareand the TalkBank data repository. Gesprächsforschung - Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion, 11, 154-173.


3. Transcription symbols

Introduction to CA transcription symbols:
Jefferson, G. (2004). Glossary of transcript symbols with an introduction. In: Lerner, G. H. (ed.), Conversation Analysis: Studies from the first generation (pp. 13-23). Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Introductory transcription tutorial using CA conventions:
Schegloff, Emanuel, A. (n.d.) Transcription module.

Introductory transcription tutorial using CA conventions:
Antaki, Charles (2002). An introductory tutorial in Conversation Analysis.

If you use this option, use the command...
@Options: jefferson
...if you want to use CLAN for analyses (see following section) later.

Check here to see modifications of CA symbols for CLAN.

If you use this option, remember to use the command...
@Options: CA
...if you want to use CLAN for analyses (see following section) later.

Article about transcribing plurilingual data:
Nussbaum, L. (2006) La transcripción de la interacción en contextos de contacto y de aprendizaje de lenguas. In Y. Bürki & E. de Stefani (eds.) Trascrivere la lingua. Transcribir la lengua. Berna: Peter Lang, 195-218.

Article about transcribing multimodal data:
Mondada, L. (2008). Using video for a sequential and multimodal analysis of social interaction: Videotaping institutional telephone calls. Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 9 (3).